跟读练习: Practice English with Wednesday Addams | Shadowing Sounds & Intonation - 通过视频学习英语口语
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Have you ever wondered what is the most effective way to practice your intonation, rhythm, stress, and pronunciation?
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The answer is shadowing.
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But not just any type of shadowing, but intentional shadowing.
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And today I'm going to teach you how to practice intentional shadowing, and we're going to do it,
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while shadowing Wednesday Addams from the hit Netflix show, Wednesday.
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I already apologized.
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It's over.
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Over.
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But before we begin with some shadowing today, first, let me introduce myself.
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If you are new to my channel, my name is Hadar.
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I'm a non-native speaker of English, and I am here to help you speak English with clarity, confidence, and freedom.
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And I've created multiple resources for you to practice English and learn English effectively.
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It's totally free, and you can find it on my website at hadarshemish.com.
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And you can also follow me here on YouTube just hit subscribe
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and on other social media platforms where I share valuable daily content.
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Okay, so let's begin.
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What is shadowing?
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Shadowing is a practice method where you repeat the person that you're hearing.
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You can also call it an imitation exercise or an echoing exercise because you are the echo of that person.
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Get it?
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The echo?
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So you're just repeating what you hear.
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And it really is so helpful, especially when it comes to improving your pronunciation and improving prosody.
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Prosody is the intonation, rhythm, stress.
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It's how you put it all together when you speak.
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And sometimes learning the theory is not enough and you need to put it into practice.
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And by shadowing, not only that you're practicing these elements, you also start developing a a strong intuition for English.
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You start recognizing and feeling what's right and what's not right.
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And you start changing your internal rhythm
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because the rhythm of your first language is probably not the same of the rhythm of English.
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And imitation is such a great tool to start mastering that.
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But here's the tricky part.
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And this is what I usually see my students do.
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When you practice shadowing, it's really easy to fall into the pitfall of just repeating it automatically,
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repeating what you hear automatically, and not setting an intention as to what you're trying to improve or gain out of this exercise.
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And when you try to do everything, you end up focusing on nothing and therefore learning nothing.
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But if you really want to change, if you really want to get quick results, you have to be intentional.
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So you have to focus on the things that you'd like to improve and change.
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And today I'm going to show you how to do that exactly.
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I'm going to do it while focusing on two different things.
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Let's say you want to practice shadowing to improve your R's.
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You know how to pronounce the R, you have practiced it, yet you feel like it's hard for you to use it spontaneously when speaking.
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So today I'm going to show you how shadowing is going to help you with that.
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And then we're also going to practice shadowing and the focus
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and the intention is going to be on intonation and most specifically operative words.
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The words that we stress to get our message across.
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Now, by the way, to help you with this exercise, I've prepared for you a script that you can download for free.
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The script has some of the notes that I'm going to be talking about today, whether it's about the R or about intonation.
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So feel free to download it.
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Just click the link below and get it.
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Now, the first step in a good shadowing exercise is to find a scene
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or a speech or a monologue that you like, and then the script.
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It's really easy when you have the script in front of you.
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Now, I've already taken care of that.
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I've selected a scene for you.
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And as I told you, you can download the script.
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The second thing is to monitor the speed.
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You can listen to it at regular speed, but you can also slow it down to 75% or 50% of the speed.
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There is nothing wrong with practicing shadowing with slower speed.
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Why?
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Because the focus is on intention and focusing on specific things and not just natural speech.
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Anyway, you won't be imitating people in real life, right?
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So for the sake of the practice, it's okay if you slow down the speaker by a bit or even by a lot.
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And you can also speed it up afterwards.
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So I have a one-minute scene from Wednesday.
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And what I'm going to do is spend the first half shadowing it, focusing on improving the R.
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And the second part is going to be focusing on intonation and stressed words.
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So here's how I would do it if I want to focus on the R.
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If you have the script, I recommend that you mark all the words with R in them or just the R's.
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You can just mark them in bold.
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It's really helpful and it's easy for you to focus on what matters.
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And as you read it, it will be a reminder that this is where you need to go back to the R that you've practiced.
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because what happens when we just repeat other people or just read a text through, it's very easy for us to go back to our native R
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or how we used to pronounce a certain sound rather than the new sound.
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So you are very likely to think that you're practicing it correctly, but in fact, you're going back to old habits and then you're not changing anything.
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So take the text, mark the sound that you want to work on.
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In our case, it's going to be the R.
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And let's play the video.
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Okay, first sentence.
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First, I'm going to repeat it as is.
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I already apologized.
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I already apologized.
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Now, I want to do it again, thinking about the R sounds.
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We have it in the word already.
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By the way, she pronounces it with the L, already, but know that you can drop the L.
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It's also okay.
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Already.
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Already.
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If that's easier for you, if you tend to confuse the L's and the R's already
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but as you say the word already make sure
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that you bring the tongue up make sure it doesn't touch anything
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and that you round your lips
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so these three things bring the tongue up make sure the
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tip doesn't touch anything you can focus on bringing the sides
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of the tongue to the sides of the teeth for a nice strong r
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and round your lips and by the way
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if the r is challenging for you i have several videos teaching you how to pronounce the r
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that i'm going to link in the description below okay
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so back to the script i already apologized
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so i'm saying it with the intention of pronouncing the r
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correctly rounding the lips making sure the tip of the tongue
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doesn't touch anything let's do it together already already already it's over it's over okay
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so now there is an r at the end sometimes for
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some people it might be a little more tricky let's make sure that that you're getting to the R over, over.
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Now, yes, there are a lot of other things here to notice.
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There is the O's in go, and there is the reduction of the it's, but I'm not gonna focus on that right now.
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But I really want you to only focus on the R.
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It's okay if all the rest is not perfect.
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The purpose is to focus on what matters.
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In this case, the R.
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Over, Over again with a different intonation pattern.
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Over, make sure you round your lips.
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Tonight was just the icing on the birthday cake.
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You couldn't even be bothered to cut.
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Okay, this is a little long, so let's do it slowly.
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Tonight was just the icing on the birthday cake.
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You couldn't even be bothered to cut.
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So we have birthday, that's a tricky one, birthday.
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Tonight was just the icing on the birthday cake.
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Birthday cake.
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Birthday cake.
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Let's do it again.
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Tonight was just the icing on the birthday cake.
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You couldn't even be bothered to cut.
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So we have another R in the word bothered.
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Bothered.
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And this one has a TH too.
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So you want to make sure you say that a few times before you put it in the whole sentence.
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Bothered.
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As in father.
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Bothered to cut.
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Bothered to cut.
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The R is a little longer here.
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Bothered to cut.
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And get to the D at the end.
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Bothered to cut.
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Let's do it together again.
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Let's listen to the sentence.
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Tonight was just the icing on the birthday cake.
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Tonight was just the icing on the birthday cake.
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You couldn't even be bothered to cut.
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You couldn't even be bothered to cut.
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And again, we're only focusing on the R.
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You'll use anyone to get what you want, even if it means putting them in danger.
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You'll use anyone to get what you want even if it means putting them in danger.
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So we only have an R at the end.
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So I would maybe not want to waste this sentence by only thinking of the R at the end
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and maybe I would focus on the rhythm here a little bit.
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And as I get to the end, I'll bring my attention back to the R.
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Let's listen to it again.
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You will use anyone to get what you want.
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You will use anyone to get what you want.
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Right?
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So we have that nice rhythm here.
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You will use anyone to get what you want.
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Even if it means putting them in danger.
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Even if it means putting them in danger.
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Okay?
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Bringing back my attention to the R.
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Even if it means a nice rhythm, putting them in danger.
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Okay?
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Bring the tongue up, round your lips.
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We could have died tonight because of your stupid obsession.
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So we have your, your, your.
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So we're going to say the whole sentence even though there is only one word with the R
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and we'll get ready to say the R.
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We could have died tonight.
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We could have, we could have, we could have, listen to the reduction here.
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We could have died tonight because of your stupid obsession.
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Because of your, because of your, because of your reduction.
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So here we also have the R because of your, your, your.
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We make sure that we bring the tongue up.
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It's short.
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And then stupid obsession.
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Stupid obsession.
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But we didn't.
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But we didn't.
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Now I'm one step closer to solving this case.
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And now I'm one step closer to solving this case.
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So we have closer.
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Very much like over, the R is at the end.
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We want to make sure that we hit it.
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And now I'm one step closer to solving this case.
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closer, closer, closer.
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And if you feel like your R is not accurate, just say it again a few times and then in context again.
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That is what is important.
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That is what is important.
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That is what is important.
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So here we have the R in important, in poor, poor, poor.
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Now as you're saying the sentence, you're probably noticing other things like the T in important.
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How do I do that?
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And and maybe the T in that is, what is.
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You will be noticing different things.
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So after you make sure that you get that R right, of course, focus on other things.
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That is, what is.
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Okay, flap T.
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Nice, that is, what is.
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Now let's see how she pronounces the word important.
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Important.
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Important.
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Important.
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She starts with an A sound, then M, im, And then poor, we definitely wanna pay attention to the R here, poor.
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And then there isn't really a T there, it's a glottal stop.
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N, N, N.
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And then she releases the T.
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It's not a held T when she pronounces it, it's just t, important, important.
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There are several other ways to pronounce this word
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and I'm going to link to a video where I teach that in the description.
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The last sentence for the part where we practice the R.
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Listen.
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I've tried really, really, really hard to be your friend.
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Lots of R's here.
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Okay, I've tried, pay attention to the R.
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Really, really, really hard.
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Now, she really emphasizes those words, right?
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And as she does, you can even hear vibrations when she pronounces the R.
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Freely, freely, freely.
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Mm, mm, that happens when you push the air with a lot of strength
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and the tip of the tongue is always touching the upper palate but not.
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Mm, really.
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Now, usually you don't hear it.
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You actually don't want the tongue to be too close to the upper palate, but it's interesting to hear that, and that's because how she's using those consonants
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to stress what she's trying to stress or as a result of her being angry.
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So back to the sentence, I've tried really, really, really hard, round your lips for all these three words and the word hard,
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and then to be your friend.
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Another R, here we have a cluster, friend, to be your friend.
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All right, so in the next part of the scene, I'm going to show you how I focus on intonation And in that,
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more specifically, stressed words.
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I call them operative words, the words that drive the meaning forward.
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Those words are usually longer, louder, and higher in pitch.
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I have a lot of videos explaining the theory behind it and showing you a lot of different examples.
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So I'm going to link to those videos below.
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But now I'm going to show you how to do that when shadowing.
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So let's continue with the scene.
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Now, shifting the focus.
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Always put myself out there.
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Always put myself out there.
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So I feel like out there is more stressed.
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How do I know that?
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Those words are longer and she raises her pitch.
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Out there.
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Out there.
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Always put myself out there.
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Now, if you have a tendency of stressing too many words or keeping everything on the same note, being more monotone, this is a really good exercise for you
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because you might be imitating and shadowing and still keeping your own internal patterns rather than actually shadowing what you're hearing.
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The brain can play tricks on you.
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So this helps you focus on paying attention to when she raises the pitch and doing it yourself.
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Let's continue.
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Thought of your feelings.
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Thought of your feelings.
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Feelings.
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She raises the pitch on feelings.
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That word is more stressed.
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How do we know?
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Whatever comes before that is totally reduced of your, of your, of your.
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Thought of your feelings.
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So we have thought and feelings.
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Thought of your feelings.
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Told people, I know she gives off serial killer vibes.
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Told people, I know she gives off serial killer vibes.
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So serial killer, serial killer, that is stressed.
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Told people, that is stressed too.
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I know she gives off.
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That's kind of reduced because she It goes a little faster and reduces things inside.
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I know she gives off serial killer vibes, stress, stress, stress.
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Now, let's take a moment here as we're continuing this practice.
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Notice that when we're doing that, you're only focused on hearing those things, right?
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You're only focused on pitch and rhythm and reductions.
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And you're not thinking about the R, right?
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And this is just to show you how important it is to be focused on specific things and to be intentional.
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Because if I were like, let's practice the art and let's practice intonation and let's practice everything I know about English, it would make it really hard for me to succeed.
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So when I focus just on melody or just on rhythm or stress words, if I want to focus on both,
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it's okay that I don't focus on the other things.
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Let's continue.
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But she's really just shy.
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But she's really just shy.
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Shy.
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I never asked you to do that.
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I never asked you to do that.
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Asked. Do.
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I never asked you to do that.
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You didn't have to because that's what friends do.
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You didn't have to because that's what friends do. Have to.
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That's.
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Friends do.
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Have you noticed those?
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These are the words that are stressed.
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You didn't have to because that's what friends do.
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By the way, in this script, those words are going to be bigger.
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So it shows you the difference between the words that are stressed versus the words that are less stressed.
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You can download it for free in the description.
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They don't have to be asked.
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They don't have to be asked.
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Have to be asked.
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They don't have to be asked.
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And don't is somewhat stressed as well.
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So I'm going to say that again, focusing on those stressed words.
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They don't have to be asked.
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And the fact that you don't know that says everything.
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And the fact that you don't know that says everything.
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What do you think the stressed words are in this sentence?
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I'm going to let you figure that out.
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And, of course, the answers are in the PDF that you can download.
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All right.
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So, to conclude, shadowing is a technique where you repeat a person speaking, ideally when you have the text in front of you.
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and to make that practice effective, you want to be intentional.
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And by being intentional, that means that you're focusing on one, two, maybe three things as you're shadowing.
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So you only focus on that.
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And then you can also read the same text focusing on other things and then gradually start putting everything together.
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And by the way, you know how I learned that?
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When I was in acting school, I had to work on my accent.
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I had to work on my acting.
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I had to work on a specific dialect.
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And I noticed that if I just try to read through the text again and again and again, it would be really hard for me to actually get it right.
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So every time I would read it, once I would focus just on pronunciation, then another time just on the TH, that used to be a challenge for me.
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And then another time I would repeat it, just focusing on intonation and rhythm.
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And then once more, focusing on the intention and the objective of the character.
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Now, the work that I have done prior would start showing up as I started adding more layers to my practice.
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So I have done that when working on texts as an actress.
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And I actually think that a lot of this work is extremely valuable when practicing English.
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Because at the end of the day, when learning pronunciation, what you really do is you are assuming someone else's characteristics of speech,
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intonation, rhythm, stress, pronunciation, and you're making them your own.
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So this is why all the exercises that I bring to you from my experience as an actress are, I believe, very, very valuable for the work that you do.
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All right, that's it.
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If you enjoyed this episode, consider subscribing to my channel and sharing it with your friends and colleagues and students.
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And that's it.
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Have a beautiful, beautiful rest of the day, and I'll see you next week in the next video.
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Bye.
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Alarara.
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